9 Healthy Gluten Free Flours

9 Healthy Gluten Free Flours

Cooking with gluten free flours can be tricky but it is worth it. Imagine eating sinfully delicious deserts that are also healthy for you!

When you are just eating gluten free whole grains, it is relatively simple. You can just throw some rice or millet in a pot, and with a little variation on the amount of water; you can get a pretty good meal. If you want to cook perfect millet or rice every time, it is more precise but for many this is not absolutely necessary.

Once you get into baking though, it’s a whole new level of complexity and precision to get that perfect cookie or cake. You can’t just substitute your favorite regular wheat recipe with rice flour for example. It just won’t work out. I often feel like a chemist in the kitchen fine tuning gluten free recipes.

The first step is to have the proper flours. To keep it simple I have limited this list to a small handful of my favorites . I was extremely sensitive to gluten and almost everything so I have been cooling and baking gluten free for almost 20 years.

All my recipes are also 100% white sugar free and 100% unhealthy starch free. Many of the common gluten free recipes and products are loaded with sugar and starch and that is definitely not healthy.

There are many more gluten free flours but these are the basics. I am always experimenting with new gluten free flours and combinations. I play with millet, sorghum, quinoa, amaranth, teff, buckwheat and even ancient wheat. Most of those grains are already in my diet and I love them. I must be careful when teaching to not overload but I like to play and experiment myself. Suggestions of YOUR favorites are welcome.

Our diet needs to consist of is a wide variety of foods; not just the same ones over and over every day. Sometimes the same food is eaten many times a day like wheat which comes as toast for breakfast, muffins for tea, sandwich for lunch and then pasta for dinner and cake or cookies for dessert. I believe that is one of the reasons so many have intolerance for the gluten in wheat.

Many popular recipes and products are filled with sugar and starch. Almost everyone knows the dangers of too much white sugar but many people don’t know that starch is very similar to sugar. It has almost no vitamins and minerals, and extremely low amounts of fiber, and protein. Read all the difference here: Starches VS Flours – What is the Difference

That’s why all my recipes are filled with only healthy flours and ingredients.

That is also why I teach a special Healthy Baking BootCamp – for people to get not only the knowledge but also the skills to bake and cook properly with gluten free foods. It has the focus and success of a gritty outdoor boot camp so in one weekend you get to create sinfully delicious AND healthy desserts…but from the comfort of your home.

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I am the Founder and Author at Real Food For Life. Have been teaching cooking classes worldwide since 1982.
Create original, healthy recipes and menus, which are gluten free and white sugar free. Also, the author of the GREEN means LEAN and Balance Your Body e-books. I turned a debilitating health crisis into a passion for helping others with healthy, sugar free, gluten free eating and cooking.